The Robbery.

A Nearly Accurate Recounting of an Emailed Conversations That Brought Certain Mysteries to Light...

Chip - So, what's this I hear about there being a robbery?

Me - It was no big deal, really. Over the weekend, someone broke into our office and stole three laptops. I spent the next few days, changing people's laptop combinations and then we had to order three more computers and set them up. And for three days, people were hitting my cubicle, all day long, dropping off stuff to be scanned or emailed, essentially tripling my workload. It's over now and things are back to normal.

Chip - Well, why didn't you just say that on the blog entry? That seems pretty straight-forward.

Me - A guy's gotta have some mystery about him, doesn't he? It's much cooler to say "a robbery happened" and not explain anything. Let people's imaginations run away for a bit. That sounds like much more fun.

Chip - Sure. But then you're going to have to answer emails from concerned friends, wanting to know what happened, all the time. You should probably just post about it in your blog.

Me - Yeah, you're probably right. I probably will... So, Xmen3?

Chip - Sucked.

Me - Yep. Sucked.